Letters, programmes of tours, texts of talks and printed material relating toservice as an administrator in Fiji, and to tours made of the Caribbean and West Pacific territories as Assistant Under-Secretary of Statefor the Colonies, 1938-1966.
Papers of Trafford Smith
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 490
- Dates of Creation1938-1966
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description4 boxes
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Administrative / Biographical History
Trafford Smith (1912-1975), civil servant and diplomat, began work in the Colonial Office in 1935 before being secondedto Fiji in 1938. He was made Assistant British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides in1940, served in the British Solomon Islands from the same year and in theGilbert and Ellis Islands from 1941. He was Secretary of the Soulbury Commissionon Constitutional Reform, Ceylon, 1944-1945 and Assistant Secretary, ColonialOffice, 1945. He was attached to the British delegation to the United Nations,New York, for the Special General Assembly on Palestine, 1948. From 1953 to1959 he was Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, and Acting Governor May-September1953 and July-September 1954. He was made Assistant Under-Secretary of State,Commonwealth Office, 1959-1967 and Ambassador to Burma, 1967-1970. He wasawarded a CMG and the Cross of St. John. In 1937 he married Mary Isabel Smith,with whom he had two daughters.
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Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Listed as no. 617 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford,Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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